“It’s feeling strong. I haven’t got my full range back yet, but I’m confident I’ll have that back in the next couple of months.

“I’m not just saying that, my body is feeling really good.

“I feel like I’ve got plenty of (good) footy left in the body.”

After a relatively injury free first 13 seasons in the league, the 32-year-old has played just 20 of the Suns’ last 50 games, due to two shoulder surgeries and one knee surgery over the last three seasons.

“The first 13, 14 years of my career I didn’t really have an injury,” he said.

“The thing with all the injuries, they’ve all been impact, collision-type injuries; it’s not like it’s soft tissue injuries where the body’s breaking down on me.”

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